The post by Stephen Byk entitled "On Teaching Literature" that was distributed on Wed 22 Jan was simply beautiful. If you missed it, there is a temporary copy of it at https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2033458/Misc/OnTeachingLit.docx Inside that post, Stephen wrote: and then moving on to Haikus that they can all write themselves (there are several very nice write your own haiku programs on the internet). My comment is: The SHeMa prayer is a 5:7:5 haiku in Hebrew. I do not think this is a coincidence. Izzy ************************************** ** Join ETNI on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/31737970668/ ** ETNI Blog and Poll http://ask-etni.blogspot.co.il/ ** Etni homepage - http://www.etni.org ** post to ETNI List - etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** help - ask@xxxxxxxx ***************************************